#leonette au

[leonette-soup]

[allyheart707]

Tw/ Eyes. Lots of them.

My friendo @cosmocafe made a cool AU idea that we have been brainstorming ideas for all day. I thought I would try my hand at Leonette!

[leonette-soup]

Vote for Leonette!! I swear if he wins I'll give you guys some content

ROUND 1 A GOOBER BRACKETS

Leonette belongs to @leonette-soup

UM!Foxy, Venus, Peter, April belongs to @trixanimations

[captainelliecomb]

2023 Fic Stats

February 2023, I decided to start tracking the amount of fic I read. I travelled a lot last year, quite a bit more than normal. I read a lot of fic when I travel.

I did a half year update at the end of June 2023. Between February and June, I read just under 13 million words.

February through December, I read just over 30 million words and 2,049 individual fic (though several are the same fic on a reread).

Some stats:

First read: Head, Hand, Heart by ddagent (@ddagent) (GOT canon divergence, Jaime/Brienne) (04 Feb 2023)

Last read: Other Brother by AlynnaStrong (ASOIAF canon divergence, Tyrion/Brienne) (31 Dec 2023)

Top 5 Most Read Authors

By number of fic. I reread frequently, so this is number of times I read a specific fic, not the author necessarily having written that number of fic.

ddagent, 78 fic (@ddagent)

Aviss, 72 fic (@aviss)

winterkill, 62 fic (@thebrimmingheart)

Lady_in_Red, 61 fic

chrkrose, 58 fic (@chrkrose)

By word count.

cardinalgirl75, 1.8 million words

winterkill, 1.3 million words (@thebrimmingheart)

sdwolfpup, 1.1 million words (@sdwolfpup)

angelowl, 1 million words (@angelowl-fics)

Aviss, 900,000 words (@aviss)

SeeThemFlying, 900,000 words (@seethemflying)

Top 5 Most Read Completed Fic

This includes number of times I read the entire fic while they were works in progress, which skews numbers. I'm doing something different in 2024.

so all the world can see by EllisJay: 12 (ASOIAF, Jaime x Brienne)

Simple by languageintostillair: 11  (GOT fix-it, Jaime x Brienne)

when the sun shine, we shine together by cardinalgirl75: 9  (Modern AU, sports, Jaime x Brienne)

Runaways by greenmtwoman: 7  (@greenmtwoman) (ASOIAF canon divergence, Jaime x Brienne)

Undisclosed Desires by Roccolinde: 7  (GOT fix-it, Addam x Jaime x Brienne)

Top 5 Longest Fic Read

The Keeper by PalyGirl, 532,733 words (GOT canon divergence, Aegon (Young Grif) x Brienne, Jaime x Brienne) (WIP)

Heart Full of Gasoline by sdwolfpup, 406,767 words (@sdwolfpup) (Modern AU, sports, Jaime x Brienne)

Diamond in the Rough by cardinalgirl75, 374,333 words (2x)  (Modern AU, sports, Jaime x Brienne)

Honor Compels Me by angel_deux, 335,399 words (@angel-deux-writes) (GOT canon divergence, Jaime x Brienne)

Truth and Measure by Telanu, 271,584 words (Devil Wears Prada, Miranda x Andrea)

Fic Over 100,000 Words Read More Than Once

Brienne-centric Kinktober 2021 by dancinginthecenteroftheworld, 101,177 words (3x)  (@dancinginthecenteroftheworld) (Brienne x all sorts of people and settings)

let's exchange the experience by cardinalgirl75, 116,080 words (3x) (Modern AU, Kimi no Na wa, Jaime x Brienne)

None But the Lonely Heart by OccasionalAvenger, 121,079 (3x) (ASOIAF, Jaime x Brienne) 

To Reach for Spring by Kadi219, 173,394 (2x)  (GOT fix-it and canon divergence, Jaime x Brienne) (WIP)

when the sun shine, we shine together by cardinalgirl75, 126,951 (2x) (Modern AU, sports, Jaime x Brienne)

Anima Dannum by motorbike_on_the_avenue, 121,021 (2x) (Modern AU, soulmates, Jaime x Brienne)

come on now, baby girl by angelowl, 119,957 (2x) (Modern AU, Veronica Mars, Jaime x Brienne)

Cubs and Gemstones by ddagent, 113,073 (2x) (Jaime x Brienne in all sorts of settings)

Brienne Pairings

I am here for Brienne of Tarth stories, and I will read her paired with almost anyone. Jaime x Brienne is my favourite, but here are several other Brienne pairings I read in 2023.

old Jaime/young Jaime/Brienne

Addam/Jaime/Brienne

Aegon (Young Griff)/Brienne

Arthur Dayne/Jaime/Brienne

Brienne & Brienne

Bronn/Brienne

Cersei/Jaime/Brienne

Cersei/Brienne

Cersei & Brienne

Dickon/Brienne

Dothraki OC/Brienne

Hyle/Jaime/Brienne

Jon/Brienne

Leonette Fossoway/Brienne

Margaery/Brienne

Melara & Brienne

Multiple people/Brienne

Oberyn/Brienne

Oberyn/Jaime/Brienne

Oberyn/Ellaria/Jaime/Brienne

Olenna & Brienne

Pevensies & Brienne

Susan/Brienne

Peter/Brienne

Podrick/Brienne

Podrick & Brienne

Renly & Brienne

Robb & Brienne

Sandor/Brienne

Sansa/Brienne

Sansa & Brienne

Thor/Brienne

Tormund/Brienne

Tyrion/Brienne

Tyrion & Brienne

Tywin/Brienne

Settings

Almost 1,000 fic were marked alternate universe. Various AUs include:

Apocalypse and dystopia

Fairy tale

Historical (including 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, 19th century, Regency, Victorian, Vikings, WWI)

Horror

Modern (including actors, artists, bikers, bodyguards, celebrities, doctors, chefs, farmers, firefighters, mafia, models, museums, photographers, politicians, reality tv, royalty, sports, students, superheroes, teachers, veterinarians, wedding planners, and writers)

Space

Western

Canons Used in Crossovers or Fusions

Belinda Blinked

Blade Runner

Dungeons & Dragons

Dragon Age II

Dune

Fight Club

Full Metal Alchemist

Frasier

Fury Road

Ghost and Mrs Muir

Inception

Kimi no Na wa

Leftovers

Leverage

Mountain Between Us

Narnia

Nutcracker

Old Guard

Only You

Pacific Rim

Persuasion

Ponyo and Dory

Romancing the Stone

Sense8

Sharknado

Ted Lasso

MCU Thor

Tortall

Veronica Mars

Westworld

When Harry Met Sally

Witcher

What We Do in the Shadows

Zombieland

Canon settings and divergence

Canon: 303 fic Canon divergence: 747 fic Fix-it: 666 fic

Most of the fic I read last year was Jaime x Brienne. For GOT, I consider canon divergence any story that diverges from Jaime returning to King's Landing in Season 8 and fix-it any story that deals with that return.

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“Rhaena of Pentos with her dragon egg, Morning”

"King of the Narrow Sea" - Daemon Targaryen

“ Naerea Targaryen” - OC

“ Aurora and Valeria” - OCs

“Laena Velaryon and Rhaenyra Targaryen “

MIXED

“Six characters fan art challenge” - Daenys the dreamer, Daenerys Targaryen, Visenya Targaryen, Bran Stark, Missandei of Naath, Lyanna Stark

"Six characters fan art challenge part 2" - Genna Lannister, Ashara Dayne, Aerea Targaryen, Shiera Seastar, Daeron II Targaryen, Bloodraven

“Six characters challenge part three”- Saera Targaryen, Arianne Martell, Margaery Tyrell, Rohanne of Tyrosh, Daemon Blackfyre, Naerys Targaryen

“Kagome Higurashi”- Inuyasha (anime)

“Nana Osaki ”- Nana (anime)

HOUSE STARK

“Catelyn and Robb”- the newly lady stark with her firstborn

“Lyanna Stark” - Robert’s Rebellion era

“Cregan Stark” - sketch

“Sansa Stark”- with her house colors and a winter rose

“Robb Stark” - The King in the North

“ Rhaegar crowning Lyanna Queen of love and beauty”

HOUSE LANNISTER

“Jaime and Brienne”

“Cersei Lannister” - Robert’s Rebellion era

“Jaime gives Oathkeeper to Brienne”

HOUSE TYRELL

“I Want to be The Queen”- inspired by show! Margaery

“ Highgarden’s rose” - Margaery Tyrell

“Lady Olenna and her granddaughter Margaery”

“ Robb Stark and Margaery Tyrell” - AU made for #housetyrellweek

“ Garlan Tyrell and his wife Leonette Fossoway”

HOUSE MARTELL

“ Prince Oberyn Martell” - a younger version

HOUSE TARGARYEN

"A quiet evening in Pentos"- Laena, Daemon, Rhaena & Baela Targaryen

“Lady Shiera Seastar” - bastard daughter of Aegon IV and Serenei of Lys, paramour of Brynden Rivers and Aegor Rivers

“Jocelyn Baratheon & Aemon Targaryen” - Parents to Rhaenys, the queen who never was

“King Jaehaerys and Queen Alysanne” - mourning their little daughter and firstborn princess Daenerys Targaryen

“Book! Rhaenyra Targaryen”

“Book! Daemon Targaryen”

“Baela and Rhaena Targaryen” - (show version)

“Baela and Rhaena Targaryen”- ( Book version)

“Laena and Laenor Velaryon” - (book and show versions)

“Rhaenyra Targaryen and Harwin Strong” - the queen and her lover

“Rhaenys Targaryen” - The Queen who never was (book version)

"My sweet sister Helaena" - Helaena Targaryen and her half sister Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen

"Velaryon queen and Targaryen king" - Daenaera Velaryon and Aegon III Targaryen

“Rhaegar Targaryen crowns Lyanna Stark” - Tourney at Harrenhal

“The maidenvault’s princesses” - Rhaena, Daena and Elaena Targaryen

“ The three heads of the dragon” -Rhaenys, Aegon I and Visenya Targaryen

“ Queen Alysanne and her daughters” - Saera, Viserra, Maegelle, Gael, Daella and Alyssa

“ Rhaena Targaryen and Elissa Farman” - The Queen in the west and her lover

“ Viserra Targaryen “ - daughter of king Jaehaerys and the good queen Alysanne Targaryen

“The dance of dragons”- team black vs team green

“Lady Rhaena of Pentos” - Rhaena and Morning

“Queen Naerys Targaryen”

“Daemyra” - book version

MAEGOR’S WIVES SERIES

“Ceryse Hightower” - Maegor the cruel’s first wife

“Alys Harroway”- Maegor the cruel’s second wife

“Tyanna of the Tower”- Maegor the cruel’s third wife

“Elinor Costayne” - Maegor the cruel’s fourth wife

“Jeyne Westerling”- Maegor the cruel’s fifth wife

“Rhaena Targaryen” - Maegor the cruel’s sixth wife

“Six Wives” - Maegor the Cruel Targaryen’s wives

AEGON IV’S MISTRESSES

“ Lady Falena Stokeworth” - first mistress to Aegon IV Targaryen

“ Megette” - second mistress to Aegon IV Targaryen

“ Lady Cassella Vaith” - third mistress to Aegon IV Targaryen

“ Bellegre Otherys, the black pearl of Braavos” - fourth mistress to Aegon IV Targaryen

“ Lady Barba Bracken” - fifth mistress to king Aegon IV Targaryen and mother to Aegor Rivers (Bittersteel)

“Lady Melissa Blackwood” - sixth mistress to Aegon IV and mother to Brynden Rivers ( Bloodraven)

“ Lady Bethany Bracken” - sister to Barba and seventh mistress to Aegon IV

“Lady Jayne Lothston” - eight mistress of Aegon IV and rumored bastard by Falena Stokeworth

“Lady Serenei of Lys” - ninth mistress of Aegon IV and mother to Shiera Seastar

“Aegon IV Targaryen nine mistresses” - complete portrait

AEGON V TARGARYEN FAMILY PORTRAIT

“ Prince Daeron” - youngest child of Aegon and Betha

“Rhaelle and Ormund” - future grandparents of Robert, Renly and Stannis Baratheon

“Prince Jaehaerys and Princess Shaera” - heirs to the throne

“Prince Aerys and Princess Rhaella” - future king and Queen, parents to Rhaegar, Viserys and Daenerys

“Jenny of Oldstones and Prince Duncan” - protagonist of the infamous lullaby

“ Betha Blackwood and Aegon V” - the king and Queen

ASOIAF FASHION SERIES

“The Dothraki”

“House Martell”

“The Night’s Watch”

“House Bolton”

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[nerajaana]

Racebend AU

House Tyrell: Growing Strong.

[virgil-is-a-cutie]

Thought, Leo and Lila Rossi are twins but Leo is trying to stop Lila from lying. He develops a crush on Marinette and tries to talk to her but Marinette always ignores him. When Ladybug happened, Leo defended Mari instead. Lila threaten Leo to shut his mouth which Marinette overheard. Chameleon happen to Leo instead because he was protecting Mari from the akuma

Wouldn't be surprised if Lila saw Mari as competition to have her brother's attention. It's like the telenovela of the identical triplets but it's the evil sister pretending to be the shy timid sister (who mind you is very fucking self conscious because she has a prosthetic leg bc of an accident the evil sis did when they were kids) to try and break her up with a guy in a wheelchair that she already knew and considered him worthless.

To be honest, I just see Lila shocked and astonished as her bro basically protected Mari in his akumatized form that was basically protecting Mari since he was dressed as Knight.

Chameleon basically had Leo looking like Mari and probably terrorizing his sister.

[imaginedbya]

           —              THE ROSE AND THE APPLE              —

A note that reads; “Meet me at midnight in the forest of my dreams. We’ll make a fire and count the stars that shimer abover the trees.” - Leonette Fossoway 296 AC.

[thetudorslovers]

" Lady Leonette was a Fossoway as well, and wed to Ser Garlan. "

[leonette-soup]

COME GET YOUR FOOD GUYS

[allyheart707]

Hello ally!

I have come to see if you can guess me!

Ty other anon cause this sounds fun!

Here are some hints: I have an AU that follows one of the turtles that i haven't started, im a moot of yours, and we talk regularly.

NOW is it Cosmo??? With Leonette? (I hate how Cosmo is the first moot I think of EVERY time this happeneds- XD)

[goobersforlife]

BRACKETS ARE UP!

AND HERE THEY ARE!

This is side A brackets

Participants-

(camp hamato) CH! Leo & Vincenzo - belonging to @p0t3nt1al

Rose Jones- belonging to @omgselinabeckendorf

Hamato Giovanni- belonging to @enthblaze

(universal mayhem) UM!Foxy, Venus, Peter, April- belonging to @trixanimations

UWG!Donnie and IitM!Leo- belonging to @witchybluedeity

orange- belonging to @itsnotillegalyet07

Misa- belonging to @littlemissartemisia

(Lab rats sons) LRS!One- belonging to @rubberducky2pointoh

Mikey, and (chaotic time travel) CTT! F!Donnie and Dahlia-belonging to @cats-inthe-cradle

kirby- belonging to -@tomatoshapedstars

(turtles all the way down) TATWD!Murasaki & mizuiro- belonging to @pommigranite

(Green eyed mask) GEM!Casey Jr- belonging to @azucar-skull

Vassari, Donnie, paris, zink- belonging to @angelcorpse230

(Rabbits broach) RB! Aristotle and Plato Umigame- belonging to @pigeonsgrame

Toby Sage Darner -belonging to @flockofcrowsinatrenchcoat

(once more with feelings) OMWF! Jasper, and bell - belonging to @tuatara-time

Artie-belonging to @faemorningstar

Donatello & Genetrix- belonging to @tmnt-starlit-sin

Kirby Hamato- belonging to @darth-sonny

(Teenage Turtle Ninja mutants)TTNM! donnie, mikey, raph and leo- belonging to @idiot-mushroom

Yuchi, Cali, Mikey, and the QUILT! Au turtles- belonging to @cokowiii @cokoweee

(starblind) Yuchi, Leo- belonging to @dancingthesambaa

(Queen of the birds)QOTB!Leo- belonging to @just-another-wren

Robo!Rise Donnie, Raph, Leo, and Mikey- belonging to @zinovi768

Leonette- belonging to @leonette-soup

Timothy- belonging to @pinetreevillain

Sunflower- belonging to @agentturtlecupcake

These are side A participants, I will reblong with side B’s participants soon

Good luck, and have fun!

(also lmk if I got someone's username wrong, or anything like that, so that I made tag the right person :3)

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BRACKETS SIDE B

Goober comp brackets! Side b | Bracket HQ

BRACKET HQ

side b of the baskets

Participants-

TMNA! rafa, doni, miguel and leo- belonging to @matutito

(giant mutant toddler turtles) GMTT! Raph, Mikey,Leo, Donnie- belonging to @bambiraptorx

(open your shell to find your wings) OYSTFYW!Donnie, and snapsonnie! -belonging to @onejellyfishplease

Kraang Subprime- belonging to @optimalminds

HorrorAU! Donnie, Raph, Mikey, leo- belonging to @hyperfixated-homo

(not hero material)NHM!Raph, mikey, donnie, leo- belonging to @peanutrat20

Iridiana- belonging to @chipistotallysane

(raised by kraang)RBK! April, and (raised by foot) RBF Casey- belonging to @apollothesunrat

Venus, Leo, Raph, and Donnie- belonging to @fxliciq-a

Pondside! Raph, Donnie, Leo, Mikey-belonging to @purple-the-turtle

Milkshake and Waffles- belonging to @sleepis4theweak

That concludes side b’s particapents

Wishing you guys luck, and can't wait to see what happens

Also side note, if you do anything to break the rules, you will be eliminated from the competition, please be respectful. And enjoy

[hchollym]

Brienne of Tarth for the ask game? And Margaery Tyrell?

Two amazing ladies. 🥰 Thank you for the ask!

Brienne of Tarth

Sexuality Headcanon: Pan

Gender Headcanon: Cis female

A ship I have with said character: Brienne x Tormund (show only), Brienne x Sansa, and Brienne x Margaery. I love the idea of Brienne x Margaery (especially from the show) because of their connection through Renly, and I feel like Margaery would really appreciate Brienne for how amazing she is!

A BROTP I have with said character: Brienne & Podrick are the perfect BROTP, but I also love Brienne & Sansa, Brienne & Catelyn, and Brienne & Arya.

A NOTP I have with said character: Brienne x Jaime (unless it's in a really good AU). I know everyone loves Braime, but I'm not a fan of canon!Jaime, and I think she deserves better.

A random headcanon: Brienne loves reading books about knights and princesses, and when she was younger, she was reading one of those stories when some boy made fun of her for it, so she threw the book at him.

General Opinion over said character: Absolute boss with a side of sweetness. How can you not love her?!

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Margaery Tyrell

Sexuality Headcanon: Lesbian

Gender Headcanon: Cis female

A ship I have with said character: Margaery x Brienne, Margaery x Sansa, and Margaery x Sansa x Brienne (because they are all three awesome and deserve to find happiness in each other).

A BROTP I have with said character: Margaery & Loras, Margaery & Leonette, and Margaery & Renly. Let's be honest though, Margaery spends most of her time around gay guys.

A NOTP I have with said character: Margaery x Daenerys. I don't know why. It's just one of those pairings that really bothers me for no specific reason.

A random headcanon: Margaery loves flirting. She will literally flirt with anyone, and it means nothing to her aside from some fun. It's gotten to the point where she doesn't even mean to do it, but it's instinctual. Her girlfriends always get exasperated with her because she'll flirt with their brothers, sisters, mother, and father without even realizing it!

General Opinion over said character: Book!Margaery wasn't as interesting as show!Margaery (sorry, not sorry). I loved show!Margaery, whereas book!Margaery was kinda bleh to me.

[the-great-bbe]

How about something with Rhaenys/Garlan?

Setting: Regency Era!AU, “I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands.” “They're not empty now.”

Note: Marei of Oldstones is the Westerosi version of Marie de France, a 12th century poet whose work influenced the Arthurian Cycle. And yes, it was a common pastime for learned ladies to discuss the phallic imagery ever present in medieval romances lolol the tumblr instinct has been around for centuries

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It begins as simple admiration. He is Margaery’s favorite chaperone, as Willas can’t keep up with her merry chases and Loras enables her chases to become proper misadventures. So he is the one that Mama sends to court when Margaery becomes lady companion to Crown Princess Rhaenys. And what a court it is—Queen Regent Elia rules with grace and glitter, and all the courtiers gossip enough to make dear Grandmama herself lean in. Here Garlan can train with the finest of knights, read from the royal libraries, discuss with like-minded lords and ladies about the progressive new laws that the Queen Regent is putting forward...

And then there is the Princess herself. 

Tall, with rich olive skin and black ringlets cascading down her back. Her face is soft and round, balanced by full lips and large eyes—oh, her eyes! Garlan has never seen such eyes outside of paintings, an impossible shade of black-violet. And when he first sees those eyes, she is smiling at him. He cannot help but smile back.

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It’s not just that she is beautiful, of course. Her mind is a treasure beyond words. One day she and Grand Maester Tyrion have a three hour long debate about the origins of dragons in the courtyard. Garlan nearly swoons like a green maid to hear the strength of her arguments, the logic she wove like silk in a loom. And even Tyrion concedes defeat to her, as most people end up doing to the Crown Princess. When Rhaenys takes her leave to give her mother company, Garlan bows. “An excellent battle, Your Highness. I’ve never seen a Field of Fire through words alone before and yet we all are blown away.”

“Thank you, Ser Garlan.” She smiles and there’s faint dimples in her cheeks; the sight nearly makes Garlan swoon again! “Care to escort me to the Queen’s apartments?”

Of course. Her hand is a warm weight in the crook of his arm and truly, Garlan is surprised she is not betrothed yet. She is eighteen, of age to take the throne in her own right were it not for her father in the sanitarium on Dragonstone, and easily the loveliest creature on the gods’ green earth. Perhaps she will marry Lord Robb Stark for his bloodline, or Ser Joffrey Baratheon for his riches. Had Willas not eloped with Leonette Fossoway to Braavos he too would’ve been a contender. Grandmama will probably throw the Tarly girls at Garlan, or perhaps a girl from the Riverlands...

“Your eyes seem far away, Ser. Does anything trouble you?”

Garlan shakes himself. “It’s nothing, Your Highness. I’m simply wondering when I shall become an uncle.”

“Yes, I hope my wedding present to your brother Lord Willas and his wife Lady Leonette survived the ship to Essos.” Her gaze flickers away for a moment, then she squeezes his arm. “Join my lady mother and I for tea? Perhaps you can give your perspective on elopement, as my dear brother Aegon intended to run off with Shireen Baratheon in their “doomed romance” when we’d much rather just give them Summerhall.”

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“Ser Garlan! Do join us!” Rhaenys sits on a large picnic blanket with Marg, a gaggle of other ladies and Rhaenys’s fearsome cat Balerion. Prince Oberyn, Rhaenys’s uncle and practical second father, keeps watch over them and nods at Garlan. They are in the shade of a gigantic plum blossom tree given as a gift from the Emperor of Yi-Ti, and there’s a few petals fallen into her hair. Unthinkingly, Garlan sits by her side and brushes them loose, and he shivers from the feel of her hair between his fingers. Rhaenys asks, “Tell us, have you read the words of Marei of Oldstones?”

“Yes, her poetry influenced the Arthurian Epic did she not?” Epic tales set in the Dawn Age of heroes and fair maidens and wretched monsters. Garlan remembers being still in leading strings, listening to Papa read him and his siblings a passage before bed each night. 

“We were discussing some of the themes in in the Epic and other tales of its kind.” Marg gives him a grin that sends a shiver down his spine. Gods, what is she up to now? “About the imagery of a knight rescuing a princess from a tower. What do you make of it?”

“I...”

Sansa Stark hides a giggle behind her folding fan. “It’s always a giant tower, so very large and impressive.” Then she and little Allyria Dayne dissolve into giggles.

Garlan tugs on his collar. Rhaenys is looking at him expectantly and he can’t ignore his future queen. But really! Marg is still grinning and Garlan narrows his eyes at her. Oh, he’ll get her for this. “It is quite a juxtaposition of imagery. As Lady Sansa said, the tower the knight must handle is always a tall and imposing one. Yet...”

“Yet?”

Garlan prays to the gods for guidance. “Yet the knight must enter the tower. So truly, what function is the imagery in this context?”

Walda Frey—Loras once called her Fat Walda at a feast and she gave him a split lip and a black eye, so now Garlan defers to her as the very best of Waldas—whispers to Marg, “Better than just scaling up and down its walls in its lonesome.”

The ladies giggle and Garlan wants to sink into the floor. Then Rhaenys laughs. “Well put! Thank you for indulging us.” She pauses, then cocks her head and Garlan wonders when the mild spring day got so warmer so quickly. “Indulge us again: do you prefer the sword, or the joust?”

“I prefer handling two swords at once, although I am no green boy when it comes to the joust.” Marg might just choke to death on her stifled giggles and Garlan hopes that she does! But there’s a hint of red to Rhaenys’s ears, and what mild flirtation ever hurt anyone? “At the next tourney, I’ll do my best to impress you.”

“Perhaps I’ll give you my favor as a good luck charm. We can’t have me being unimpressed, can we?”

Indeed, they can not. Garlan would love nothing more for her to admire him, as he admires her.

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“Your Highness,” Garlan licks his lips, as they are as dry as a Dornish desert. His words catch in his throat. Then Marg in the stands motions at him to continue, Prince Oberyn himself sends him a wink...and he says, “I crown you, Princess Rhaenys, as my Queen of Love and Beauty.”

The crowd erupts into cheers. It was a very hard joust won, as Ser Jaime of the Kingsguard nearly dislocated Garlan’s shoulder and Lord Robb was no one to be trifled with. But at the end he threw even his brother Loras down to the dirt—as if his trick of using a mare would work on Garlan! Not after the tourney at Longtable where Garlan broke his nose!—and won the crown of jonquils and morning glories. They look so beautiful in Rhaenys’s hair, almost as beautiful as Rhaenys herself.

Rhaenys’s reply is nearly lost beneath the deafening roar, but Garlan hears it all too well. “I am honored and delighted to be crowned by such a noble and true knight as you.” And her favor, tied neatly around his arm beneath his armor, seems to catch alight.

He has nothing to offer her, other than this crown of flowers and his hand in the dances to come. He is a second son of a family with many mouths to feed, with no kingly descent or heirloom sword. She shall marry someone worthy to take his place at her side as Prince Consort, and he...he shall content himself with the feeling of her hand in his.

He bows over that lovely hand and kisses her knuckles. 

Later that night, after hours of dancing and feasting and laughing and chasing, he kisses her knuckles again. And again, and again, and again. Until Rhaenys pulls him up from his knees and kisses him with lips as soft as spring and rich as wine. Beneath that plum blossom tree with no one to witness them other than the moon and stars reflecting in her impossibly beautiful eyes, no other sound than their shared breath against each other’s lips and Garlan whispering “I think I’m in love with you.”

He kisses her before she can tell him they cannot be. He cannot bear it.

--

“Do you love my daughter, Ser Garlan?”

Garlan can hardly breathe before the presence of the Queen Regent Elia Martell. So much of Rhaenys’s bold beauty is from her mother, and the Queen Regent has decades of power behind her piercing gaze. But he is no liar. He jerks a nod. “With all my life, Your Majesty.”

She nods, as if it were a foregone conclusion. She is not wrong in that, as the entirety of Kings Landing must know that Garlan would gladly die for Rhaenys, and live for her as well. Even Papa knows, and Papa hardly knows anything! After an eternity of being sized up and raked over the coals of the Queen Regent’s eyes, she sighs. “You are not my first choice, but you are not my last. If my daughter consents to it, I give my blessing to officially court her.”

Truly? Truly?! Garlan gapes like an idiot, or perhaps some ill-bred fish. And the Queen Regent laughs; she sounds so much like Rhaenys. “I encourage you not to make that same face when you ask for her permission.”

Garlan, after bowing and scraping as much as he can without fainting, eventually leaves the royal solar. Marg immediately tackles him and cackles that her hopes have gone swimmingly, and her best friend shall be her sister. Then she pulls him along to gods know where while Garlan’s head reels.

He? To court Rhaenys? To hold her hand in his and not let it go? Garlan’s knees nearly give out, especially when Willas and Loras both clap their hands on his shoulders. “Grandmama will finally be proud of us, I think,” Loras boasts.

“Her Highness has not even consented yet!”

Marg rolls her eyes “Garlan, I love you, but you are as thick as molasses. Now go confess your love to her!” She practically shoves him towards Rhaenys’s plum blossom tree. “And kiss her! With tongue!”

He stumbles into the tree and nearly into Balerion. The cat blinks up at him to say he is a fool, then slinks away to a laughing Aegon’s arms. “Ser Garlan! Are you alright?”

“Y-Your Highness, I...” Garlan peeks around the tree to see Rhaenys on the other side, standing with something hiding behind her back. She catches his questioning gaze, and flushes a pretty red before revealing a knitted scarf. “For your brother, my princess?”

“For you, actually.” She bites her bottom lip before puffing herself up. “I intend to ask my lady mother the Queen Regent if we would be allowed to court. With your consent of course! I would never presume that you would wish to—”

“I was just given permission by Her Majesty to ask for your permission.”

They stare at each other for a moment, before Rhaenys giggles into her palm. Garlan melts, and finally asks, “Would you like me to court you, Your Highness?”

“Yes.” She presses the scarf into his hands, and leans up to murmur in his ear, “And please, call me Rhaenys.”

He shivers. “Rhaenys.” All is right with the world it seems, just from the sound of her name on his lips.

--

Garlan smiles despite the tears in his eyes. “Rhaenys, are you sure? I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands.” 

“They're not empty now.” Rhaenys squeezes their hands together.

Then she cloaks him in her house colors, and Garlan is hers, hers forever and always, just as he was always meant to be.

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1.   Alysane Mormont. 2.   Brienne of Tarth. 3.   Jeyne Westerling. 4.   Joanna Lannister. 5.   Leonette Fossoway. 6.   Lyanna Stark — her main verse is an au where she is still alive during the books’ events. 7.   Maege Mormont. 8.   Mya Stone. 9.   Shireen Baratheon. 10.   Val of the Free Folk.

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( ✉ → sms ) help me choose a pizza topping please ((For Leonette))

Text memes. // ACCEPTING. 

( ✉ → Loras) Only if you save me some. 😄

( ✉ → Loras) Though I’d recommend something with peppers && Chillies.